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Signalman Gus Britton: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Signalman C W Cleeve: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Supplementary instructions from Lt Col Arthur Wyndham Tufnell, General Staff, East Lancashire Div, Territorial Force, regarding the sending of signal messages from shore to the light cruiser HMS MINERVA and the torpedoboat destroyer HMS AVON. Probably part of a training exercise. 1p.

Papers relating to the evacuation of Crete (Apr-Jun 1941) including signal from LAYFORCE reporting on the evacuation; Warning order to LAYFORCE, 31 May 1940; letter to Lt Col Edward Simonds de Brett on the subject and orders for blowing up bridges in Crete. 4 items

Typescript signal to Supreme Allied Commander, Adm Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, repeating proclamation of Supreme Commander of Japanese Army, declaring peace negotiations are taking place with the Allies. 1p.

Signal from HQ 13 Corps to 7 Armoured Div ordering that the Italian forces be contained at Mechili. 3pp

Signaal UK Ltd press release: 'New anti missile system for the Royal Navy'.

Signaal (sic) UK Ltd press release: 'Goalkeeper-the weapon system that could keep the Royal Navy out in front', a CIWS, Close-In Weapons System.

Cardboard sign 'Operation under general anaesthesia, Mr Kelsey Fry. Anaesthetist: Mr A D Marston'pencil note – 'limited numbers in theatre – not more than 20 please'.

Sight and sound: international film quarterly 41/4 (London, 1972);

Issue 42/2, 1973;

Issue 42/3, 1973: includes article on censorship and the Press;

Issue 42/4, 1973;

Issue 43/1, 1973-1974: includes article on Sergei Eisenstein;

Issue 43/2, 1974;

Issue 43/3, 1974: includes interviews with Jack Nicholson and Jack Gold;

Issue 43/4, 1974: includes article on Berthold Brecht;

Issue 44/2, 1975;

Issue 44/3, 1975;

Issue 44/4, 1975: includes article on Buster Keaton's, 'Steamboat Bill Jr';

Issue 45/1, 1975-1976;

Issue 45/2, 1976: includes article, 'Film and the Workers' Movement in Britain, 1929-1939';

Issue 45/3, 1976;

Issue 45/4, 1976;

Issue 46/1, 1976-1977;

Issue 46/2, 1977;

Issue 46/3, 1977;

Issue 46/4, 1977;

Issue 47/1, 1977-1978;

Issue 47/2, 1978;

Issue 47/3, 1978;

Issue 48/4, 1979: includes feature on Bernardo Bertolucci;

Issue 49/1, 1979-1980: includes articles on the film Apocalypse Now;

Issue 49/2, 1980;

Issue 49/3, 1980, open at report of Cannes Film Festival;

Issue 49/4, 1980;

Issue 50/2, 1981;

Issue 50/3, 1981;

Issue 50/4, 1981;

Issue 51/1, 1981-1982;

Issue 51/2, 1982;

Issue 51/3, 1982;

Issue 51/4 (1982), 'Fiftieth anniversary issue' with items by Satyajit Ray and Sir Denis Forman;

Issue 52/1, 1982-1983;

Issue 52/2, 1983: includes article on Alfred Hitchcock;

Issue 52/3, 1983;

Issue 52/4, 1983;

Issue 53/1, 1983-1984;

Issue 53/4, 1984;

Issue 54/1, 1984-1985;

Issue 54/2, 1985;

Issue 54/3, 1985;

Issue 54/4, 1985;

Issue 55/1, 1985-1986;

Issue 55/2, 1986;

Issue 55/3, 1986;

Issue 55/4, 1986;

Issue 56/1, 1986-1987, open at article on supply of TV news pictures;

Issue 56/2, 1987;

Issue 56/3, 1987;

Issue 56/4, 1987;

Issue 57/1, 1987-1988;

Issue 57/2, 1988;

Issue 57/3, 1988;

Issue 57/4, 1988;

Issue 58/1, 1988-1989;

Issue 58/2, 1989;

Issue, Summer 1989, lacks title page;

Issue 58/4, 1989;

Issue 59/1, 1989-1990;

Issue 59/2, 1990: includes article on 'A clockwork orange';

Issue 59/3, 1990: includes article on East European film-making;

Issue 59/4, 1990;

Issue 60/1, 1990-1991;

Issue new series 1/1, 1991: incorporating Monthly Film Bulletin;

Issue n. s. 1/4, 1991

Three samples of trans-Atlantic submarine telegraph cable manufactured by Siemens Brothers & Co.  Possibly the souvenirs given to John Cutler (1839-1925), Professor of English Law and Jurisprudence at King's College London, 1865-[1915] by Alexander Siemens in 1898 [see K/PP107/1/4/3 for related correspondence].

Siemens promotion brochure: 'OREST (Ortungsradar Mit Elektronischer Strahlschwenkung). A highly mobile radar system'.

Sidney Gerald Miron: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Shreedhar D Behere: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Show Daily: 'Eurofighter: a child's guide' relating to development of a European fighter aircraft.

SHOT Newsletter n. s. 13 (Santa Barbara, 1981): on the history of technology;

Issue n. s. 14 (1981)

Volume of shorthand notes attributed to James Ware, the oculist, on a second course on lectures on surgery, delivered by Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1810.

Abridged version of Liddell Hart's lecture, 'We learn from history that we do not learn from history' presented to the to the Manchester Luncheon Club

Papers relating to Brigadier Short's service in Malaya, correspondence, journal articles and photographs, 1950-1994; notably including copies of the Army Quarterly and regimental newsletter Parbate containing articles on Short and on the role of the Staff College, 1958, 1982; copy of an extract from Jai Sixth. The story of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1817-1994 by James Lunt (Leo Cooper, London, 1994), including an account by Short of jungle operations during the Malayan Emergency, 1955; typescript copy of a letter written by an ancestor, Charles William Short of the Coldstream Guards, to his mother, 19 June 1815, containing a first hand account of the Battle of Waterloo; brief article by John Parfect on a memorial erected in Ampleforth College by Parfect and Short to Capt Michael Allmand of the Gurkha Rifles; Portrait photographs of Short.

Rex and Regina', a typescript short story written at Cairo, Egypt, probably by Lewis, and based on a report about the unloading of ships in Suez Roads, Egypt. The story illustrates the administrative chaos resulting from the removal of direct responsibility. 17pp